If there is one thing that is true about the wireless industry, it
is that each of the major companies tries to claim that it is the
best, biggest, or most popular in some aspect. It's not rare to see
some of the big companies like AT&T and Verizon claiming
virtually identical things about their networks.

This leads
to some interesting commercials at times and one of the latest
is Verizon Wireless taking a swipe at AT&T over its overused
"There's an app for that" tagline. The commercial
shows an AT&T user and a Verizon user walking and using
navigation presumably. The map above the AT&T users head shows
the coverage of the AT&T 3G network and the map over the Verizon
user's head shows the 3G coverage area for Verizon. Verizon then
proceeds to poke at AT&T's inferior 3G coverage saying “There's
a map for that”.

It goes without saying that the Verizon 3G
overage area is much larger if the claims are to be believed. I can
believe the AT&T network is smaller, 3G coverage is notoriously
shoddy with AT&T, and any iPhone user can tell you that 3G
signals come and go frequently. This is one of the most humorous
commercials for a mobile provider that I have seen since Alltel was
doing those spots with that fat kid. A response from AT&T has to
be coming soon.

Comments

Threshold

Username

Password

remember me

This article is over a month old, voting and posting comments is disabled

Agreed. They aren't as flexible as AT&T. For our small business, they simply didn't have anything suitable plan or phone-wise a year ago, which is why we ended up with AT&T. Phone coverage isn't the only factor...

"We are going to continue to work with them to make sure they understand the reality of the Internet. A lot of these people don't have Ph.Ds, and they don't have a degree in computer science." -- RIM co-CEO Michael Lazaridis